Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
James "Jim" Harrisonwas an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He is best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.